{"id":40423,"date":"2022-09-02T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=40423"},"modified":"2022-09-02T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T09:14:27","slug":"beauty-will-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/beauty-will-save-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty Will Save the World"},"content":{"rendered":"Beauty will save the world! This is what the fool promises in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot, and fools tell the truth, the truth that no one dares to tell because it is so simple. But how can this saviour of the world - beauty - be understood?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI was walking with a friend along the Birs, a small river at the bend of the Rhine, engrossed in conversation. It was midday, and the southerly sun was sparkling on the stream. Often I looked past my companion's mop of hair, similarly lit up, at the glittering, streaming water. Everything glowed with light and peace; it was enchantingly beautiful, idyllic.\n\n\n\nImage: Amethyst, CC BY 2.5.\n\n\n\nA contrasting image from my youth: Year 12. An excursion to Berlin takes us to the eastern part of the city, the then capital of East Germany. When w<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty will save the world! This is what the fool promises in Fyodor Dostoyevsky&#8217;s novel The Idiot, and fools tell the truth, the truth that no one dares to tell because it is so simple. But how can this saviour of the world &#8211; beauty &#8211; be understood? I was walking with a friend along the Birs, a small river at the bend of the Rhine, engrossed in conversation. It was midday, and the southerly sun was sparkling on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":39515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816,8793],"tags":[10627,8798],"class_list":["post-40423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","category-philosophy","tag-2022-27-28-en","tag-deepening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}